(919-970)
King of Navarre
925-970
Conde de Aragon
925-960.
Son of: Sancho I de Navarra & Toda de Larraun (d.970)
Husband of:
Daughter of: Galindo II Aznarez de Aragon & Sancha Garces de Pamplona
2) Teresa de Leon
His lover was:
Unnamed mistress.
(935-994)
King of Navarre
970-994
Count of Aragon
Son of: Garcia III de Navarra & Andregoto de Aragon.
Husband of: Urraca de Castilla (d.1007)
His lover was:
Unnamed mistress.
Natural offspring:
1) Abda la Vascona, mar Abu Amir ibn Abi.
(990-1035)
King of Navarra
Count of Aragon
1004-1035.
Son of: Garcia IV Sanchez de Navarra & Jimena Fernandez
Husband of: Munia de Castilla, Condesa de Castilla, daughter of Sancho Garcia de Castilla & Urraca Gomez.
His lover was:
Sancha de Aibar (995-1076)
Señora de Miranda; Señora del Monasterio de Santa Cecilia de Aibar.
Natural offspring:
a. Sancho I de Aragon.
(1012-1054)
King of Pamplona
1034-1054
Son of: Sancho III de Navarra & Munia Maor de Castilla.
Husband of: Estefania de Foix (d.1066) mar 1038
Natural offspring:
a. Sancho Garces (d.1073), Señora de Uncastillo y Sangüesa.
b. Mencia married Lope Señor de Najera (d.1068)
(1039-1076)
King of Navarra
1054-1076
Son of: Garcia V de Navarra & Estefania de Foix.
Husband of: Placencia, a French woman
Natural offspring:
a. Raimundo Sanchez, Señor de Esquiroz
b. Urraca Sanchez, Nun
(1110-1150)
King of Navarra
1134-1150
Son of: Ramiro Sanchez de Navarra, Señor de Monzon & Cristina Diaz de Vivar, daughter of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, el Cid Campeador.
Husband of:
1. Marguerite de l'Aigle (d.1141) mar 1130
2. Urraca de Castilla (1126-1189) mar 1144
His lover was:
Unnamed mistress.
Natural offspring:
a. Rodrigo Garces, Conte di Motescaglioso.
 |
| Charles II of Navarre @Wikipedia |
(1332-1387)
King of Navarre
1349-1387
His lover was:
Catalina de Lizaso.
 |
| Carlos III of Navarre @Wikipedia |
(1361-1427)
King of Navarra
1387-1427.
Son of Carlos II de Navarre & Jeanne de Valois.
Husband of Leonor de Castilla.
His lover was:
1) Maria Miguel de Esparza.
Affair's effect on the royal wife, family & society.
" . . . It appears that the issue at the heart of the matter was the queen's concerns about Carlos's illegitimate offspring. Moret alleges that the queen's illness had left her extremely low and melancholic and insinuates that the source of her depression was concern about the succession and Carlos's illegitimate children. Ballesteros claims that upon the queen's entry to Navarre in 1386, she encountered Carlos's mistress Maria Miguel de Esparza and her infant son, Lancelot, who were based at the Navarrese court. Documentary evidence confirms the presence of Maria Miguel de Esparza, her son, and their servants as well as three further mistresses, a half a dozen illegitimate children and a substantial number of retainers who were connected to illegitimate members of the royal family. Although it was certainly not unusual for kings to have mistresses and illegitimate offspring, it is possible the queen was angry and her pride was wounded when she was confronted with the physical proof of her husband's infidelity. More practically, it appears that Leonor was concerned about the possibility of her four young daughters might be displaced by her husband's son, despite the fact that this would clearly contravene the regulation of succession in the Fueros." (The Queens Regnant of Navarre: Succession, Politics, and Partnership, 1274-1512)
Natural offspring.
"It may be added that a bastard son of King Carlos III of Navarre and Maria Miguel de Esparza was called Lancelot (1386-1420); he rose to become vicar general and apostolic administrator of the diocese of Pamplona and patriarch of Alexandria. He is buried in Pamplona cathedral. The form of the name (Lancelot) reveals a clear borrowing from French, which is not surprising since Carlos III, born in France in 1361, was Count of Evreux (1387-1404) and Duke of Nemours (1404-1425)." (The Arthur of the Iberians
 |
| Carlos of Navarre Principe of Viana @Wikipedia |
(1421-1461)
Prince of Viana 1458
Prince of Gerona 1458
Duke of Gandia 1439
Duke of Montblanc 1458
Son of: Juan II de Aragon & Blanca II de Navarre.
Husband of: Agnes von Kleve (1422-1446), mar 1439
His lovers were:
1) Brianda de Vaca.
Natural offspring:
a. Felipe de Aragon, Comte de Montfort (1456-1488), Archbishop of Palermo
"Vaca, Brianda de – (fl. c1455 – 1461), Spanish concubine. Brianda de Vaca became the mistress of the Infante Carlos of Aragon, Prince of Viana (1421 – 1461), the eldest son of Juan II, King of Aragon (1458 – 1479). Brianda bore him a son Felipe de Navarra (1456 – 1488), who was recognized by his father and later created Archbishop of Palermo in Sicily. He was later killed in battle against the Moors of Granada." (Women of History - V)
" . . . [T]hey solicited him to celebrate his union with Doña Brianda Vaca, and thus legitimize the son he had borne him, Don Philip. To this, however, he would not yield his assent---owing either to his wish to avoid giving room for further discord, or because he did not deem this lady worthy of the honour to which it was wished to raise her. Ill satisfied with her conduct, he had, in fact, shortly previous to his decease, separated her from her son, whom he had entrusted to the care of a cavalier of Barcelona, named Bernardo Zapila, while the mother he had committed to the charge of Don Hugo de Cardona, Lord of Bellpuig." (Lives of Celebrated Spaniards: Comprising the Cid Campeador. Guzman the Good: 213)
2) Margarita Colom.
daughter of Juan Colom.
3) Margherita Cappa.
a low-born Sicilian lady.
Natural offspring:
a. Juan Alfonso de Aragon (1459-1529), Bishop of Huesca.
4) Maria de Armendariz.
Lady-in-waiting to his sister Leonor de Navarra.
Lover in 1451.
Natural offspring:
a. Ana de Aragon (1451-1477), Condesa de Medinaceli married Luis de La Cerda y de La Vega, 1st Duke of Medinaceli.)
 |
| Antoine I of Navarre |
(1518-1562)
King of Navarre
1555-1562
Duc de Bourbon 1537, Duc de Vendome 1537, Duc de Beaumont 1550, Duc d'Albret 1556, Comte de Foix 1548, Comte de Bigorre, Comte d'Armagnac, Comte de Perigord, Vicomte de Bearn, Lieutenant-General of France 1561.
Antoine's physical appearance & personal qualities.
"Concerning Antoine, soon to prove the darling of Jeanne's heart, Brantome said: 'He was well-born, brave and valiant, as all of this race of Bourbons, of a fine appearance, and much taller than his brothers, quite majestic in looks, with an eloquent manner of speaking.' This estimate gives little idea of the lucky suitor, who had little to recommend him except his good looks, and whose future father-in-law was justified in fearing his reputed extravagance and dissipation.
"Antoine was the eldest of Charles, duke of Vendome's thirteen children. His likeness shows him with a long nose, expressionless eyes, and a long, thin face partly covered by the proudest of mustaches and a pointed beard. He was utterly selfish, incapable of sustained application, fond only of luxury and pleasure. A great dandy, he appeared elegantly dressed and highly perfumed, decked out in pearl earrings and with his fingers covered with rings, all this dazzling to the young girl who had lived in the seclusion of the dark castle and the hills of Navarre. she saw Antoine in rosy colors. The real Antoine was superficial and frivolous, with a certain good-natured condescension, vacillating and uncertain, and incapable of wise judgment or of holding to any settled course. Though unquestionably brave and with considerable military talents, his vanity and ambition led him astray in whatever he undertook. Being impecunious, one of the main objects of his life was to squeeze money out of those who possessed it." (Under the Golden Lilies: 37)
"We must now turn to Antoine de Bourbon, the successful suitor of Jeanne d'Albret. At the age of nineteen Antoine succeeded his father, inheriting his estates, his honours, and his appointments. He soon displayed a taste for dissipation and for luxury. He was the intimate friend of the Dauphin, afterwards Henri II. He was of a prepossessing appearance, and though he soon distinguished himself in the field as a soldier, he was nonchalant to a degree. Such was the great noble to whom Jeanne d'Albret gave her heart and her hand. The chief objection which the King of Navarre had to the Duc de Vendome was the facility with which he squandered money. His Majesty himself was of the most parsimonious disposition. The duke promised reform, but it is related that his father-in-law, not placing implicit confidence in his word, went to his house the day after the marriage, and drove out a number of the duke's retainers with his cane." (The Marriages of the Bourbons, Vol 1: 124)
"Antoine de Bourbon, the beneficiary of this convergence of raison d'etat and personal preference, was ten years Jeanne's senior. Like his rival and first cousin Francois de Lorraine, he was a soldier in a family of warriors. The chroniclers Pierre de Brantome, a follower of the Guises, and Nicolas de Bordenave, a spokesman for the Bourbons, have left remarkably consistent portraits of Antoine. Brantome describes him as a good-looking man, an eloquent speaker, and, above all a brave soldier: 'there are no other kinds in that Bourbon lineage.' In Brantome's eyes, Antoine's faults were few but grievous: he was ungrateful to those in her service, vindictive to those who displeased him, and promiscuous with women---Brantome characterized this last attribute, like courage, as a family trait. Bordenave saw inconstancy as Antoine's chief weakness; as he put it, Antoine changed his mind more often than his clothes. Foreign observers noted the same traits. A Florentine diplomat, Leone Ricasoli, summed Antoine up as a gentile e buona persona, but one easily led by others. For this reason, Antoine was frequently dismissed as inconstant and of no substance. Ricoli's Venetian counterpart, Giovanni Michieli, concurred, calling him 'affable toward everyone,' but also remarking that he was a man of great ambition." (Henri IV of France: His Reign and Age: 4)
Queen Jeanne's physical appearance & personal qualities. "The Geneva portrait made of Jeanne by a contemporary artist, together with such presumably reliable descriptions as were made, shows her as a blonde with her mother's long nose, clear-cut features, thin lips, lofty forehead, and splendid large eyes. Her brusque and straightforward manner of speaking was liable to give offense. She possessed, however, the clarity and realism that distinguished the profound thinkers of her day, and she developed steadily as life taught her its hard lessons. From her father she had inherited the tenacity nothing could daunt, and from her mother a taste for spiritual matters, an aversion to bigotry, and a heart full of pity for all suffering. The greatest characteristic of her heroic person was he dignity." (Under the Golden Lilies: 42)
 |
| Antoine de Bourbon King of Navarre |
"In the nicely balanced state to which parties were now reduced in France, the fate of religion seemed in a great measure to hang on the conduct of one man---the King of Navarre. Weak, sensual, and wholly devoid of firmness and consistency of character, though not deficient in personal courage, the vacillating conduct of Anthony alternately excited the hopes and fears of both parties. From a letter of Calvin's to Bullinger, in May, 1561, we find that even then Calvin placed no reliance on that prince, though ostensibly a convert to his principles, and though his interests naturally made him an opponent of the Guises. In this letter Calvin says: 'Faithless and inconstant, the King of Navarre is as slothful and flexible as he is liberal of him promises. Though he now and then discovers some sparks of manly resolution, which promise to burst into a flame, they soon became instinct. He is no more to be trusted than a prevaricator in a court of law. He is, moreover a slave to his pleasures; and a certain matron (Catherine), skilled in such arts, has gotten him completely in her power, by means of one of her women. The story is known to the very boys. I have reprehended him for his conduct just as I should a private individual of my flock; and Beza has treated him quite as unceremoniously. But he thinks it a discharge in full for his conscience if he swallows our objurgations patiently, and without falling into passion.'" (The Life of John Calvin: 498-499)
 |
| Louise de La Beraudiere |
His lovers were:
Louise de La Beraudiere de l'Isle Rouhet (1530-1586)
Lover in 1560-1561
Maid of Honour to Catherine de' Medici 1552
Maid of Honour to Marguerite de Valois
Daughter of: Louis de la Beraudiere, Sieur del Ile Rouet.
Husband of: Louis de Madaillan d'Estissac (1502-1565), Governor of La Rochelle, Governor of Aunis, Lieutenant-General of Poitou, mar 1562
Natural offspring: Charles III de Bourbon (1554-1610), Marshal de Saint-Andre, Archbishop of Rouen, 1597-1604, Cardinal.
Her other lovers were:
1. Claude de Clermont, Vicomte de Tallard (d.1569)
2. Henri III de France
3. Henri IV de France (Antoine's son)
5. Robert de Combaud, Seigneur d'Arcis-sur-Aube (d.1586)
Lover 1580
"The lady whom Catherine [de' Medici] employed to subdue the King of Navarre was Mademoiselle la Beraudiere, one of her maids of honour, whose knight he called himself. His attentions to this lady, after his wound at the siege of Rouen, are said to have been the cause of his death. Catherine employed the same means of seduction with other leaders of both parties; and for this purpose chose her maids of honour, not merely for their personal charms, but also for their shrewdness and address. Conde, the Duke of Guise and several others were not proof against these arts: Coligny was almost the only one who resisted them successfully. Conde is said not to have abandoned one of his numerous mistresses, on account of his adopting the evangelical religion. He, like his brother Anthony, sometimes in need of admonitions from Geneva; but probably the more decided character of that prince, and his indispensableness to the Calvinistic cause, occasioned them to be administered with more reserve and gentleness. There is a joint letter of Calvin and Beza to Conde, in which his foible is handled very tenderly: and indeed, Beza was not exactly the person to lecture on such a topic." (The Life of John Calvin: 498)
"It was thus that Conde's elder brother, Antoine de Bourbon, King of Navarre, had met Louise de la Beraudiere, Demoiselle de Rouet---la belle Rouet, as the Court called her---in whom he found so refreshing a contrast to his sharp-featured and austere consort that he permitted her to lead him whither she, or rather Catherine, willed. She was the cause of his death. Wounded at the siege of Rouen and scarcely convalescent, he called her to him, and 'behaved as though he considered that kings were immortal,' with the result that might be expected [his death] . . . But her connexion with the King of Navarre did not prevent la belle Rouet from making an advantageous marriage with Robert de Gombault, Sieur d'Arcis-sur-l'Aube, maitre d'hotel to Charles IX, whom she presented with two daughters." (The Love Affairs of the Condes (1530-1740: 32-33)
"War was raging, and Rouen, which had been occupied by the Huguenots, was in the vise of the royal armies under command of Lieutenant-General Antoine de Bourbon. He divided his time between the siege and the latest mistress he had selected from Catherine's tempting 'flying squadron'. As a brave and reckless fighter, Antoine one morning left his royal tent for one of the trenches perilously near the city walls, where, rashly exposed, he was struck by a bullet. Carried to his cot, his first thought was to send for his mistress, Louise de Rouet de la Berandiere. Neither her caresses not the King's surgeons were able to save his life. With his death Jeanne's son became first prince of the blood." (Under the Golden Lilies: 50) [Fam1:Geneanet]
Natural offspring: "Charles de Bourbon-Navarre, Bishop of Rouen, 1597-1604 (resigned). Of the 3 Bourbon ecclesiastics with identical names in late 16th C. he is the least known. Half-brother of Henri IV, he was illegitimate son of Antoine de Bourbon, king of Navarre, and Louise de la Beraudiere, aunt of Francois, future bishop of Perigueux. Status and career before nom (sic) to Rouen are particularly hard to follow. At best he held see of Lectoure in Gascony for many years 'in administration' rather than as titular bishop, and he did not attempt to play church or political role like his two name sakes, Cardinal Bourbon (Charles X) and Cardinal Vendome. Henri IV attempted to place him in Reims in 1591, but was unable to dislodge the Guises. Not first choice for Rouen in 1594, and only nom (sic) Philippe Desportes, the poet, refused it. It seems fair to date his episcopal career from accession to Rouen, rather than from any one of earlier 'associations' with a particular diocese. Short episcopate ending in resignation, it seems even a major archdiocese held few attractions for him. . . ." (The Making of the French Episcopate, 1589-1661: 581)
F
2) Marguerite Lustrac.
References:
No comments:
Post a Comment